Verizon activates more Android phones than iPhones in Q2

Verizon today announced its second-quarter 2012 earnings. As expected, the carrier sold a lot of phones. No, really. A lot of Android phones. And a lot of iPhones.

On the wireless side, which is the one we pay more attention to here, Verizon saw a 1.2 million net subscriber additions. Some 888,000 of those subscribers are of the traditional prepaid nature. Verizon now has a total of 94.2 million customers, 88.8 million of which are retail postpaid customers.

The really interesting numbers, though were the following:

50 percent of Verizon's postpaid base is smartphones, up 13 percentage points from this time last year.

About 7 percent of smartphone owners upgraded their devices in the second quarter.

For the quarter, 2.9 million Android phones were activated, 2.5 million of which were 4G LTE

Activated 2.7 million iPhones in the quarter, up from 2.3 million a year ago